Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Corahides. 287 
Genus Hyporiruvs. 
Hypolithus vitalisi, sp. n. 
Length 7°5-8:0 mm. ; width 2°9-3:1 mm. 
Black, both upper and under sides strongly iridescent ; 
palpi and joints 1-2 of antenne testaceous; trochanters, 
tibiz, tarsi, and side-margins of prothorax (faintly) brown ; 
joints 3-11 of antennz and femora piceous. 
Head wide (1°75 mm.), convex, shining, clypeal suture 
fine, frontal impressions obsolete, surface finely, but not 
very closely, punctate. Prothorav quadrate, but rather 
transverse (1‘9x2°6 mm.), widest a little before middle, 
finely bordered throughout; base truncate, apex slightly 
emarginate, sides evenly rounded, with a single seta rather 
before the middle, hind angles obtuse and rounded, but 
quite evident ; median line and transverse impressions very 
faint, basal foveze wide and shallow, surface finely punctate, - 
base very closely and confluently, disk nearly smooth. 
Elytra (3:0 x 4°9 mm.) moderately convex, nearly parallel, 
border sharply angled at shoulder, and slightly sinuate near 
apex ; striz deep, very finely crenulate, scutellary striole 
short, arising in an umbilicate pore, intervals 3-5-7 seriately 
punctate, the pores arranged along strisze 2-4-6 respectively, 
9 with a series of umbilicate pores, widely interrupted at 
middle; surface finely, closely, and distinctly punctate. 
Body beneath finely punctate, very sparsely along middle 
line. 
About the size of H. cyanellus, Bates, but the reflections 
of the elytra show more blue and less green ; prothorax less 
transverse, less rounded at sides, the apex more deeply 
emarginate, the hind angles more rounded ; elytra a little 
longer and more deeply striate, surface more finely puuctate, 
punctures distinct, not laterally confluent. 
Laos: Vientiane and Paklung (R. Vitalis de Salvaza). 
Many examples. The type is in the British Museum. 
Hypolithus cyanellus, Bates, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1889, p. 269. 
In describing this species Bates does not mention a 
locality, but I find from a label on the type that it was 
taken at Tourane (Annam). Mr. Vitalis de Salvaza has 
taken’ only a few specimens, but they come from four 
different provinces of Indo-China, viz., Annam, Laos, 
Tonkin, and Cambodia. A variety taken at Natung, near 
Luang Prabang, differs from the typical form in its almost 
complete lack of lustre and the rather finer sculpture of the 
elytra. : 
